Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

Do you recall that your husband went to some meeting with Michael Paine in October of 1963?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.
It seems to me I know for sure that this was one of the Fridays. It seems to me that this was the birthday--it was after dinner. They talked in English. I don't know about what. I know that they got together and went to some kind of a meeting.

Mr. Rankin.

Was that a meeting of the American Civil Liberties Union?

Mrs. Oswald.

Ruth said something about that, but I didn't understand anything. This was right after the incident with Stevenson, who was hit.

Mr. Rankin.

Was that in the weekend of October 25th?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes, probably. This was not Lee's birthday. It was the week after that, the following Friday.

Mr. Rankin.

Now, on October 26th, Saturday, was your husband with you all day?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes. All day. Whenever he came, he never went anywhere else.

Mr. Rankin.

We had some information that a telescopic sight was fitted to a gun for your husband on that date, and that is why I am asking you if there was any time that he could have left to have that done.

Mrs. Oswald.

How is it about the telescope? He always had the telescope. Were there two?

Mr. Rankin.

We are trying to find out. Someone says that they mounted a sight.

Mrs. Oswald.

This is not the truth, if they say that. Simply people talking. Perhaps someone who looked like Lee.

Mr. Rankin.

Someone may be mistaken and thought that he had mounted a telescopic sight when he did it for someone else. And that is why we want to check with you.
When your husband went back to work on Monday, October 28th, did he drive with Wesley Frazier at that time?

Mrs. Oswald.

It seems--it seems that he had overslept and that someone else had picked him up. But, no--no, I remember that he did not come to get him, but Lee met him near his house. Lee told me that. Or his sister. I don't remember. Lee told me about it. But I have forgotten.

Mr. Rankin.

But he did not go in by bus that day?

Mrs. Oswald.

No. He said his sister drove him to the bus. I only know that this boy did not come to get him that day.

Mr. Rankin.

As far as you know, he may have gone all the way into Dallas in a car, or he may have gone in a bus?

Mrs. Oswald.

Perhaps he hadn't told him to pick him up on that day. I don't know. I only know the fact that the boy did not pick him up on that day.

Mr. Rankin.

We have reports of FBI interviews the last part of October, that is October 29, and also November 1, and November 5. We would like to ask you about them, since some of them may have been with Mrs. Paine in your presence or with you.
Do you recall one on October 29th?

Mrs. Oswald.

I don't remember the interview. Ruth interpreted--she talked to them.

Mr. Rankin.

In order that the Commission will understand, whenever the FBI would try to ask you any questions, Mrs. Paine would interpret for you?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

And would she at the same time answer things in English, too, herself?

Mrs. Oswald.

Yes.

Mr. Rankin.

So, in effect, the FBI was----

Mrs. Oswald.

Excuse me--she loves to talk.

Mr. Rankin.

The FBI was interviewing both of you at the same time, to some extent, is that right?